GOLDEN GATE - A 23-year-old man has been charged with attempted murder, sexual battery and armed burglary in connection with the attack of a Golden Gate teenager Thursday.

Detectives say the victim was home alone that evening when she was attacked by Jacob Airon Carrel, 5494 26th Place SW, Golden Gate.

Carrel was arrested Saturday night at his residence.

When detectives said they arrived at the victim's house, they found her covered in blood. She told them she knew her attacker, and didn't know his name but her brother did.

The brother told detectives, based on his sister's description, the suspect was a former friend who had been at their homes several times before, about a year ago.

The teenager's name isn't being published because the Daily News doesn't identify victims of sexual assaults.

According to the arrest report:

The victim said she arrived home Thursday night and unlocked her front door. She headed to the bathroom when she saw a man whom she thought was her brother. The assailant violently forced open the door and entered the bathroom with her, reports stated.

The man told her that he knew where her grandmother lived and would kill her and her family if she didn't do what he demanded. He then sexually assaulted her. The man later placed one hand on her chin and the other on her neck, and forcefully twisted her head, trying to break her neck.

The victim said she became unconscious and awoke in a pool of blood with a knife next to her. She had been stabbed in the throat and left to die. The teen went to the couch, knowing her father would be home soon. The father arrived and immediately notified authorities.

Nearly five years ago, records show, Carrel was convicted after he was arrested on a charge of lewd and lascivious molestation.

Deputies in September 2008 released a composite sketch of a man suspected of squeezing the buttocks of a child as she was near Golden Gate Middle School.

The girl told deputies she was walking along 48th Terrace Southwest outside the school around 8 a.m. one day when a man on a bike rode past her and squeezed her buttocks, the Sheriff's Office reported. The man said something to her in English that she couldn't make out.

He then rode away.

Someone who knew Carrel recognized him after seeing the sketch on television and called Crime Stoppers, authorities said at the time.